Topaz Farm is a famous family owned farm located in Oregon. It is located at Sauvie Island, right across from the city of Portland. Every year, Topaz Farm hosts sunflower festival during the summer to invite everyone to come and harvest your favourite sunflowers. There is no entrance fee and everyone is welcome. Topaz Farm also offers you pick blackberries and grape tomatoes. There are also other farm animals on the farm for kids to watch. On the other side on the farm, there are also several old farm tractors that kids can enjoy.
We got to Topaz Farm around 9:30AM in the morning and the parking lot was about 30% full. We could already see the sunflowers field as we entered the farm. We were so excited to see the bright yellow flower field just across from the parking lot. We strolled into the sunflower field and followed the trails and saw many bumble bees collecting honeys from the sunflowers. There were also many photo spots that the farm owner had set up. Most of the time we had to line up and take turns to take photos. There were several people holding scissors to cut their favourite sunflowers, but we didn't want to do so. We spent about an hour going through the whole sunflower field and took a lot of photos.
We then headed to the farm animals area where we saw chickens, turkeys, and sheep. We were not allowed to touch them but we could watch them from the outside. As we walked further down, there was a you pick flower area where people could cut down their favourite flowers not limited to sunflowers. The next few rows were blackberries. We took a pint and collected a pint full of blackberries. Most of the blackberries at this time were still red and not ripe, but we still managed to find black ones on the far end of the bushes. The grape tomatoes appeared to be bright orange colour. Although it might have seen to be not ripe yet, it actually tasted really fresh and sweet.
Afterwards, we went to the playground where the kids enjoyed the tractors. There were 4 small tractors where kids can hop on and pretend to ride on it. There was also a giant tractor on the side. It was huge and at least 2 stories tall. Many people were waiting in line to have a ride in it. We waited for 30 minutes just to get to hop onto the big tractor.
We really had a lot of fun at Topaz Farm. It offered an amazing experience going from flowers, to farm animals, to you pick berries, and then the tractors. It is a perfect place for family with small kids to spend the weekend at. We highly recommend to visit Topaz Farm and have fun here!
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